Mohamed Cherif Abbas responds to Kouchner
War veterans Minister Mohamed Cherif Abbas put it starkly in his awaited response to French Foreign affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner on the generation of the revolution and independence.
- “Sovereignty does not depend on a certain generation, it is associated with both generations from cradle to grave,” he said.
- Regarding the French compensation law, he added: “They have their point of view and we have ours and the future is between us. »
- On the inauguration of the second symposium on the effects of the historic French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara hosted by an army hotel in AlgiersMr, Cherif Abbas recalled on the criminal nature of the experiments carried out by French colonial authorities at that time as human rights violation, birth defects and cancers that affected the population.
- Outside the meeting, Mr. Cherif Abbas said that the symposium is aimed at defining those crimes and informing the public on the damages caused by the French colonial forces at that time.
- The program includes a presentation of 14 nuclear tests, the negative effects on the environment and mankind, and the organization of workshops devoted to these experiences.